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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

User fixingmedaybyday on Reddit came up with "Agilecadabra" to describe management thinking that if they use the word "agile" without changing anything else it magically makes people complete tasks quickly, and I love it and am stealing it right now.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Cuckoo ducks (animal) An obligate brood parasite which lays its eggs in seagulls' nests. They don't hurt other eggs; they just get in the way and take advantage of others' care. (software devlopment) Jira tickets that got bodged into your team's epic because it's less work than creating a new one.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

New blog post: A third conversational pattern in BDD: lizkeogh.com/2026/01/23/a... - Interaction Questioning: “Given the behaviour that results in the outcome, is there any point where a human should confirm choices or decisions being made?”

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A Third Conversational Pattern in BDD

It’s been a moment! COVID disrupted a lot of things, not least my writing. More recently I’ve been busy with my new employment with the amazing Assent, focusing on sustainability in sup…

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

This is awesome. Listening to Lake District Radio - DJ Lee Durrant is playing for 24 hours (from 8am GMT) in protest against the sewage being dumped into the lakes. He's only playing songs that made it to "number two" in the UK charts :D bsky.app/profile/radi...

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Tried to find the page documenting my main No Man's Sky base. I do also play Palworld. This is hilarious.

A Google search for "lunivore base". The AI Overview which results says, "In Palworld, Lunivore is a Pal that players can use to build a base in a safe location on the island. The Lunivore base is a popular choice for a starter base because it's relatively safe and easy to build on. Players often choose this location because it's situated on a hill where few aggressive pals spawn, making it a good place to set up a base while they are still at lower levels. Here's why Lunivore is a good location for a base..."

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Software devs solve problems that haven’t been solved before, or solve them in new contexts; otherwise we’d be buying (or open sourcing) solutions. When AI solves problems that don’t come from its training data set, I’ll worry about my mortgage. Until then it’s great for the other stuff. Mostly.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

AI is super-helpful, especially when we tread on someone else's specialist turf to get things done. But it still takes a human to help you check / test the work, and AIs can't tell you who the right person is to do that, or reach out to them for you. As ever, the hardest problems in SW are human.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Specialisms in modern SW means that we have to work with each other: to over-communicate, relentlessly clarify priorities, work as a team-of-teams when they shift, create and clean up docs, and it's always messy no matter how hard you try. Katherine Kirk calls it "the entanglement of entanglement."

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

It's been eye-opening getting "back to the coal face". The complexity of modern software development is mind-boggling. Back in 2000 one person could reasonably hold the whole of an Enterprise website plus services in their head having spent a year or so on it. Now we necessarily have specialisms.

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Charity Majors @charity.wtf · 26/03/2025

I stumbled across this essay as I was falling asleep last night, and left myself multiple emphatic reminders to remember to circle back to it today. "The joy we're about to lose...we'll become overseers rather than creators, managers rather than builders." annievella.com/posts/the-so...

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The Software Engineering Identity Crisis - Annie Vella

Many of us became software engineers because we found our identity in building things. Not managing things. Not overseeing things. Building things. With our own hands, our own minds, our own code. But...

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/03/2025

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

What gets me about the Signal chat isn't the chat itself. It's that nobody can answer the question: "What other information has been compromised?" This will not be the only thread, possibly not the only leak, and anything > 4 weeks old is deleted. They have no idea what they leaked, to who.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

@RonJeffries.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Just found my copy of Kate Oneal's "The Mythical Italian Restaurant" which you gave me as a gift the first time we met (Agile 2005?) for my clumsy explanation of BDD to you and Chet. Finding it today made me smile - thank you!

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Don’t ask Amazon Q Developer to put code under test for you. It thinks you’re trying to “put it under”, refuses, and directs you to the Responsible AI Policy instead.

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 16/12/2024

Newsletter: Our digital lives are unregulated growth-hacked ecological disasters. The modern tech ecosystem's growth-at-all-costs mindset is actively harming billions of people, pushing them toward authoritarianism for profit. We must fight back. www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

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Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting wor...

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Wow, the Cynefin.io wiki has come a long way since I last looked at it! This page on the vector theory of change is really concise and has a great example of dispositional landscapes: cynefin.io/wiki/Vector_... - would love to pass this on to change agents everywhere!

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Main Page

The cynefin.io, Naturalising Sense-Making wiki that almost anyone can edit.

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Here's a puzzle. How do y'all work out what data you need from your users and data constraints, alongside your emergent product, when you can't get the data later if you didn't get it from the get-go and you can't put data constraints in if the data is already a mess? What should I read / watch?

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Liz Keogh @lunivore.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Had a lot of conversations this year about Doug Hubbard's method of calibrating estimation confidence - found a great write-up of it here. Next time they ask you for an estimate, ask what level of confidence they're looking for! www.cleverworkarounds.com/2009/11/11/a...

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A simple way to improve your estimating (and a cool pub trick) – Conclusion

…and we’re back! Well… that was a long commercial break wasn’t it :-) In case you missed part 1 of our version of the show “deal or no deal”, you missed the big cliff-hanger and you really should r…

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Jason Gorman @jasongorman.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

This seemed inevitable to me after just a couple of weeks evaluating GPT-4 and previous versions. First rule of reality: it's *always* an S-curve. garymarcus.substack.com/p/confirmed-...

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CONFIRMED: LLMs have indeed reached a point of diminishing returns

Science, sociology, and the likely financial collapse of the Generative AI bubble

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prozacchiwawa.bsky.social @prozacchiwawa.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

@lunivore.bsky.social coined the term 'sadlines' and i think it's revolutionary.

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;( @tomorrowx3.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Can you imagine going to a restaurant and yelling at the waitress to bring your food faster, following her around the room shrieking at her and when she finally sets your in meal in front of you, sniffing it and walking outside. MY CAT CAN

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GZY ⍼ גז"י @gamzehyaavor.bsky.social · 29/08/2024

Optimist: the cup is 1/2 full Pessimist: the cup is 1/2 empty Excel: the cup is January 2nd

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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 27/08/2024

The National Gallery in London is renovating its Sainsbury Wing and they’ve just found a secret letter from one of the original donors, sunk into a concrete column, saying that he hates the columns and is glad they’re being demolished. 10/10 unhinged rich man behaviour, no notes

TO THOSE WHO FIND THIS NOTE
IF YOU HAVE FOUND THIS NOTE YOU MUST BE ENGAGED IN DEMOLISHING ONE OF THE FALSE COLUMNS THAT HAVE BEEN PLACED IN THE FOYER OF THE SAINSBURY WING OF THE NATIONAL GALLERY.
I BELIEVE THAT THE FALSE COLUMNS ARE
A MISTAKE OF THE ARCHITECT AND THAT WE WOULD LIVE TO REGRET OUR ACCEPTING THIS DETAIL OF HIS DESIGN.
LET IT BE KNOWN THAT ONE OF THE DONORS OF THIS
BUILDING IS ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED THAT YOUR GENERATION HAS DECIDED TO DISPENSE WITH THE UNNECESSARY COLUMNS.

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 30/08/2024

wrote a thing idly after the kids went to bed

a poem with no title. I tried to paste the entirety of it into alt text but it ran out of characters before the poem was done, which seemed worse than just describing the poem. the point of the poem is that there's a sort of masculinist conception of writing as neurotic compulsion that I think is really wrongheaded, but at the same time, it's framing that's useful for some people, so they should hold that position if they like; but like most generalized writing advice, "don't write unless you must" seems silly to the author of this poem, i.e. me.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 30/03/2024

I'm watching some folks reverse engineer the xz backdoor, sharing some *preliminary* analysis with permission. The hooked RSA_public_decrypt verifies a signature on the server's host key by a fixed Ed448 key, and then passes a payload to system(). It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/10/2023

This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models. www.technologyreview.com/2023/10/23…

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This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI

The tool, called Nightshade, messes up training data in ways that could cause serious damage to image-generating AI models.

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